Only 90s Web Developers Remember This • Hacker News Board

alephnil wrote: post #8

> Have you ever shoved a into a tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. Except that blink only existed in Netscape and marquee only existed in IE, and you could not have a webpage with both before around 2004, when firefox got support for marquee. At that point both tags were almost universally despised…

This does not mean I did not tried ;) (back when I was 10 years old, and Webmastering all around and thinking I was awesome)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by kanzure » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:44 PM UTC

pvnick wrote: post #36

d23 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...

I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it would get to the maxpages front page and that at one point all the front page links were pokemon websites.

I wonder if there's a safe way an insider from maxpages, coolfreewhatever, trident, geocities, etc. could provide this data maybe by email address without violating the privacy of everyone ever? I have the exact same story, including the hilarious pokemon websites from 2000-2003. Can't remember any of the urls. I don't need backups, just the urls.

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Post by eliot_sykes » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

powrtoch wrote: post #21

Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.

http://zerosixthree.se/vertical-align-anything-with-just-3-l...

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by dasil003 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

dkoch wrote: post #40

What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/

And updated in 2009!

Along those lines on the design side of things, what about Doc Ozone's tutorials, those are still up too:

http://www.handson.nu/

Incidentally he was also doing some pretty crazy DHTML era stuff on his last home page revision, which, despite the date on the page, I believe came out circa 2001:

http://www.ozones.com/

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Post by brbcoding » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

maaaats wrote: post #27

molecule wrote: post #10

Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Is there a v3 theme? Would love to drop that into our internal system april 1.

I haven't seen the v3 theme, but the v2 one works with moderate success, even on BS3 pages... I actually have this gist lying around (paste in console). https://gist.github.com/brbcoding/37c2ca77a3a368708d24

This is what it does to the BS3 docs page: http://i.imgur.com/VQNlsZy.png

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Post by ratscabies » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:46 PM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #28

I built various quake2 clan pages in the 90ies with humongous table layouts and cgi scripts to enter clan wars...i wish i would have saved that stuff somewhere... Zach doesn't look old enough to have been able to understand HTML in the 90ies though imo ;)

http://www.carnagge.com/